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I'm not willing to bet the house against Steve Jobs but unfortunately, just like this article and just like today's world, no one has announced a plan or much l
by JLaramie 17y ago
I'm not willing to bet the house against Steve Jobs but unfortunately, just like this article and just like today's world, no one has announced a plan or much less hinted at an idea of how to save the print media world. However, I think there is an important distinction here - one between the actual art of print dying (the physical paper) and the other of monetizing the digital aspect of it. The latter is so challenging because the online distribution model is so vastly inexpensive to produce that charging for it goes against everything free out there - which is the majority of the market.
Now, if a tool such as the tablet is such a cool way to read the paper in the morning - then maybe, just maybe, apple can work with publishers on some fee based solution. I think that this article leads us back to the underlying point that technology can and has saved some industries from dying and now, how can tech save print media from running out of ink.
- Tangurena 17y agoThe reason that no one has hinted at "an idea of how to save print media" is that there is no cure for print media as we have had it in the recent past. Their business model has been in decline for several decades, and they're not interested in changing. If you graph subscription/readership, you'll notice that somewhere between 2015 and 2020 the last newspaper in America will close. The industry is dead. It is just a matter of time before the corpse finally stops twitching.